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Title: Homosexuality and Christian Faith: Questions of Conscience for the Churches by Walter Wink ISBN: 0-8006-3186-2 Publisher: Fortress Press Pub. Date: January, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.6 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: As the Christian daughter of a lesbian...
Comment: I can safely say that this book makes an honest effort to approach the subject kindly and treat homosexuals in a loving way. I do not agree that homosexuality is just another lifestyle. I have watched my own mother go from lover to lover, never satisfied. She has had at least 13 lesbian partners in the past 14 years. She has finally found a woman that she is content to stay with but she is just that, "content," not necessarily happy. She left the church years ago and has no use for religion, but she and I get along beautifully. We have learned to love in spite of our opposing views on her sexuality. I love my Mom and I know that the environment she was raised in was one of maternal loss (her mother died when she was 18 months old), profound loneliness, and verbal abuse from an unaccepting, often cruel grandmother. Jesus encouraged compassion for every mortal, lesbian or straight, conservative or liberal. I leave the judging part to Him.
Rating: 5
Summary: Awesome!
Comment: For so long I was doubtful and had a negative view on gay christians. Church members always gave the typical texts that have been used to 'prove' that homosexuality was a sin. Those texts always seemed to miss something to me, and never were they something that came from God's mouth. They were always in the same chapters that forbade many thing that today we would think was silly (i.e. the combining of two different textiles in clothing....ooooooh....we are all guilty of that!)
This book is definitely a must read true christians! Remember: 'What Would Jesus Do' in this situation?
Rating: 2
Summary: Agenda Type Scholarship - Means Well, Otherwise Hurtful
Comment: This book, edited by Walter Wink of Auburn Theological Seminary is an example of agenda scholarship so often found in religion departments, both liberal and conservative. In trying to add force to the argument for pro-homosexual relationship within the Church, many authors write short essays explaining their reason for accepting the homosexual lifestyle.
Some of these examples are of a personal nature like one religious leader's son becoming homosexual and the diferent stages they went through until finally "celebrating" their son's sexual orientation. Other essays, like Wink's and Ken Shested's pieces, try and demonstrate that the Biblical condemations about homosexual behavior is not really directed towards "natural homosexals." It is a tierd ploy, as they torture scripture and reason to give an explanation for such behaivor. There are good responses to their positions found in many books about the subject.
It is sad that these authors have taken this position. Though the Christians Church can do a lot more in reaching out to homsexuals in love and justice, the "Church" can never condone behavior that is expressively forbidden by God. Further, when one accepts this lifestyle, they run the risk of hurting the one's they are trying to help. The homosexual lifestyle is medically harmful. Further, when one engages in this behavior, they fail to realize the purpose God has for them. They cannot have the fullness of a realtionship with Christ on earth because of a continual rebellion that is focused on "non-designed" pleasure than growing in Christ.
All Christians should speak out to defend justice where ever injustice is discovered, and that includes doing it for the homosexual community, but we must not torture scripture or compromise God's commands to make others "feel good" about themselves. I would rather be honest and loving by expressing the truth.
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Title: What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality by Daniel A. Helminiak ISBN: 188636009X Publisher: Alamo Square Press Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: New Testament and Homosexuality by Robin Scroggs ISBN: 0800618548 Publisher: Fortress Press Pub. Date: August, 1984 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Powers That Be by Walter Wink ISBN: 0385487525 Publisher: Galilee Pub. Date: 16 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Jesus and Nonviolence: A Third Way by Walter Wink ISBN: 0800636090 Publisher: Fortress Press Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.00 |
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Title: The Church and the Homosexual by John J. McNeill ISBN: 0807079316 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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